Welcome back. You're watching the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk TV.

Today, believe it or not, marks Prime Minister's one year anniversary in 10 Downing Street.

But after by-election defeats and a huge polling deficit and a long list of Tory MPs quitting

at the next election, it is fair to say it hasn't been exactly a walk in the park.

Now the Prime Minister is under pressure from some backbenchers to cut taxes.

But will he be allowed to do so?

And what will Mr Hunt, the Chancellor have to say about it?

I'm delighted to be joined now by Paul Scully,

Minister for London, live now down in College Green.

I'm glad the rain stopped, Paul. Nice to see you.

What is going on inside that building behind you?

Because it was a pretty awful week last week for Rishi Sunak

and a pretty bad week for the Tory Party in general.

Will there be any chance of the taxes being cut?

What do you see?

Well, look, we've got a difficult situation, economic situation that's ongoing. It's improving. The political situation is stabilising under Rishi as well. But there are loads and loads of challenges ahead. He's still getting, going through his program, the five pledges, halving inflation, reducing the debt,

growing the economy, stopping the boats and reducing the backlog in the NHS. And that's all

progressing along, difficult things to do. But we'll see what happens in the awesome statement.

I can't preempt that. But clearly, the by-elections were also difficult. You know, you saw people, conservatives, staying at home.

We've got to do what we can to motivate them over these coming few months,

this coming year, to make sure they come out, keep Kirstama

and the people behind him like Jeremy Corbyn and other Labour MPs out of power

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